Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens
Series: A Watermill classic
Publisher: Watermill Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9780893757847
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Criminals; Fiction; Robbers and outlaws; Social life and customs; Orphans; Manners and customs
Description: Poor Oliver Twist. From his birth in a workhouse to his apprenticeship to a cruel undertaker, the gentle boy has known nothing but Poverty and misery. To escape his suffering, Oliver runs away, hoping to find a better life. Instead, hefinds himself in the streets of the London underworld, caught up with the wily thief Fagin, vicious Bill Sykes, and a band of young pickpockets.

It seems that Oliver has gonefrom bad to worse, but an unexpected turn of events puts the boy in the home of a kind and noblefamily. At last, young Oliver Twist will have the life full of love and happiness he deserves— unless a mysterious man named Monks has his way....